Just a passing thought, but, so as not to confuse future historians: Do you think maybe you should number them "301-309" since there are already 300 numbered copies out there? I mean, Numbers One through Nine of "The Three Hundred" would suddenly have their uniqueness brought into question (and I imagine Number 6 might have particular issues with this!)
I'm number 56, so it's not really an issue for me, but I'm just thinking out loud here...

I've been cleaning out my office, organizing comic books and games, and slowly crawling through a decade's accumulation of geek stuff. It. Has. Been. AWESOME. Last night, I went into the depths of the hallway closet, and behind a bunch of CDs and DVDs, I found nine hardback copies of The Happies...

I shoot Big Bang Theory on Monday before I go back to Vancouver to finish out the fourth season of Eureka, so I have scored an entirely unexpected bonus weekend at home with my wife. Yesterday, we heard that Toy Soldiers was playing on local station KDOC (which was one of the truly great UHF sta...

I'm home for a few days before I go back to Vancouver to finish out the season on Eureka. It's nice to sleep in my own bed, actually see my family, and work in my actual office, instead of sitting at a desk in a hotel. Doctor Parrish was very heavy in the last episode I shot, so I worked 5 of 6 ...

Now, Wil, don't let this go to your head, but if you remember, I passed up a chance to play Magic with Richard Garfield on XBox Live, in order to play you instead. (Yeah, yeah, ok, it wasn't really intentional, but I really do think I got the better deal.)

Because I am too busy for a proper post, I offer a very brief trip report: I went to Seattle at the end of last week, where I not only got to spend three days with my friends from Penny Arcade, I finally got to take a tour of the Wizards of the Coast offices after years of being invited to check...

Wow... I totally got mentioned in the "Year in Review!" Well, OK, not by name, but I did get to play^H^H^H^H beat you in the XBox Game with Fame thing, so I'm gonna go ahead and count that. Anyway, if you remember me (and even in if you don't), Happy New Year to you and your family, from me (in an undisclosed deployed location in Southwest Asia) and mine (in England).

This post is not a number, it is a free man. It also continues my 2009 year in review from part five, and concludes this obscenely long series of posts that I hope was worth the time I put into creating them. I revealed a fairly major secret, and there was much rejoicing. Yaaay. About 24 hours ...

I guess I could just say, "Hey, I'm playing Magic on Xbox Live this weekend, so check out the details here," but it's more fun to tell a story, first. In 1993, while killing time between appointments, I wandered into a game shop in the valley. I looked around the aisles, thumbed through the RPG ...

I just got to play MTG online with you, Wil, and had a great time! I sent an email to the XBox Live folks like they asked, and I included you in the cc: line, so if that sort of thing interests you, pluck it from your spam filter :)
Thanks for a great game!
Dave

I guess I could just say, "Hey, I'm playing Magic on Xbox Live this weekend, so check out the details here," but it's more fun to tell a story, first. In 1993, while killing time between appointments, I wandered into a game shop in the valley. I looked around the aisles, thumbed through the RPG ...

Google Reader: Hey! You're totally going to like this blog, you should read it. Me: Oh really? Like I was going to like that other blog you suggested? Google Reader: Hey, that's not my fault. My algorithm, it can sometimes be ... wonky. Me: It was a porn blog, Google Reader, and a poorly-written...

Yep, Wil, I discovered Ficlets through you... and only posted my first two ficlets there in November. I was just getting into it, when I saw the notice about its demise. Sad for me, but at least I only had two stories there, and I don't need to archive them because I still know where there are on my hard drive.
We need another Ficlets.com.

AOL is shutting down Ficlets on January 15, and in their infinite corporate wisdom and understanding of how communities on the Internet work, they're not providing any easy way to archive the stories you've written there beyond advising that you try "copying the text and pasting it into a plain ...

You haven't mentioned this, so I wanted to bring it up just in case it hadn't occurred to you. Military people overseas (with APO or FPO addresses) often have problems from merchants who won't ship to them because they think it's too difficult. I just wanted to make sure you knew that it's actually quite simple. Yes, we require a customs form, and we're willing to pay you for your time to fill that thing out (or even to fill it out for you and send it to you) but as far as postage costs are concerned, our addresses are US addresses, not foreign ones. Postage to APO and FPO is domestic, not international. A package costs the same to send to Baghdad, Okinawa, or England as it does to Phoenix, Albuquerque, or Bangor, if the address is "APO, AE" or something like that.
And yes, I'm one of those overseas military guys, and hellz yes, I'm in ur blog, waiting to order ur signed/numbered hardback.

Phil Plait, aka The Bad Astronomer, reviewed The Happiest Days of Our Lives! This book is really good. Are you a geek? Grew up playing video games? Go to cons? Watch Trek? Have your own set of d10s, d12, and d20s (and if you even know what that means, then yes, you count)? Yeah, you know who you...

Wil,
If you're looking for a family game that's not gamerish, and can stand a card game, run (don't walk!) and get Fluxx. It's very simple, and every card played can change the rules or winning conditions. Kind of a card-based nomic. My gamer-geek friends introduced me to it, and my non-gamer wife saw us having such fun that she became hooked. Now my 8-year-old son is getting into it. It's from a company called Looney Labs (and you can find their website at the URL you would expect, which I won't post here to avoid triggering bots and spamcatchers and stuff). If your shop doesn't carry it, convince them to. If you and your family don't love it, I'll buy your deck from you. (Just you, Wil, the rest of you lot can find your own backers...)

So after I got the kids from school, I took a list and went to my friendly local game shop (Game Zone, in Pasadena, close enough to walk to Comics Factory, and Gold Line friendly, if you're local and the goddamn wind hasn't blown you into Orange County¹) Game Empire is about 2/3 open gaming area...

And with this one post, you have certain risen to the top of my wife's "must read" list (you've been near the top, but now...) We've been readers for a couple of years, but she's a knitter, and reads that site daily. Just the fact that you mentioned will tickle her no end.

My wife subscribes to a sort of inspirational-reminder-helpful e-mail-a-day things, and what always cracks me up is the completely unintentional irony of the weekly note she gets entitled, "Tomorrow is anti-procrastination day!"
I completely understand your dilemma, though. I've recently started blogging (if you can call it that), and the hard thing for me is making myself sit down and write. I mean, *I* already know how I feel about things, right? And who am I to think that anyone else really cares what I think? But really it's about the process, isn't it? I write for myself, really. I find that when I'm done, I've either clarified my thoughts on something, or it's been cathartic in some way. It's not about us, man! We're just along for the ride! Just write something simple -- a chronology of what you did the day before, or something. As you go along, either you'll be reminded of a story you need to get out, or you'll get the need to put pen to paper (!) out of your system, for a short while anyway.

I started and threw away several posts today, mostly because I just didn't have anything worth saying, but felt an obligation to write . . . well, something. It was strange to have this sense of needing to come up with something but not really knowing why, and then not having the motivation to fo...

When I was a kid, I played a lot of Cribbage with my dad on family trips. I don't remember much about the specifics of the game, other than feeling like I was playing a game that was so grown up and not winning very often, but I always looked forward to going camping with my parents, because tha...